# Newbie question (oh joy)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-question-oh-joy/181239>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 7, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-question-oh-joy/181239 "2006-03-07T18:20:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nycteris](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/nycteris/32/2226_2.png) [@Nycteris](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nycteris)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-question-oh-joy/181239/1 "2006-03-07T18:20:05Z")

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Hello! This is my first post, and my first question.  
I am a newbie to actionscript, to coding/programming anything ever, and to OOP specifically. So with those massive handicaps firmly in place I was reading tutorials on OOP in Flash 5, because it seemed like a good place to start (basically “was readable to me, etc.”).

I have hit a lot of things in this tutorial about **proto** , and arguments.callee, and other swell things I don’t think exist any more in AS2. Should I ditch this before it confuses me and just start reading books on AS2? Or will this still make a nice foundation?

I don’t actually own a copy of Flash 8; at home I have MX and at work we have MX 2004 - but if everything is gearing toward the complete switch to AS2…

-Nyc